Dalia Mogahed Quotes
People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I don't do meetings.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.
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My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.
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People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.
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Keep your eye on the ball.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
